A Generic Teaching Case Study for Teaching Design for Six Sigma 2006-01-0501
There are several reasons why it can be daunting to apply Six Sigma to product creation. Foremost among them, the functional performance of new technologies is unknown prior to starting a project. Although, Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) was developed to overcome this difficulty, a lack of applicable in-class case studies makes it challenging to train the product creation community. The current paper describes an in-class project which illustrates how Six Sigma is applied to a simulated product creation environment. A toy construction set (TCS) project is used to instruct students how to meet customer expectations without violating cost, packaging volume and design-complexity constraints.
Citation: Washington, D., Amori, R., and Gearhart, C., "A Generic Teaching Case Study for Teaching Design for Six Sigma," SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-0501, 2006, https://doi.org/10.4271/2006-01-0501. Download Citation
Author(s):
Donnell M. Washington, Richard Amori, Chris Gearhart
Affiliated:
Ford Motor Company
Pages: 13
Event:
SAE 2006 World Congress & Exhibition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Reliability and Robust Design in Automotive Engineering, 2006-SP-2032, SAE 2006 Transactions Journal of Materials and Manufacturing-V115-5
Related Topics:
Six Sigma
Education and training
Logistics
Starters and starting
Packaging
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